About the security content of iTunes 12.3

This document describes the security content of iTunes 12.3.

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iTunes 12.3

Impact: Applications that use CoreText may be vulnerable to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the processing of text files. These issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-ID

CVE-2015-1157 : Apple

CVE-2015-3686 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

CVE-2015-3687 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

CVE-2015-3688 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

CVE-2015-5755 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

CVE-2015-5761 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

CVE-2015-5874 : John Villamil (@day6reak), Yahoo Pentest Team

iTunes

Available for: Windows 7 and later

Impact: Applications that use ICU may be vulnerable to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in the processing of unicode strings. These issues were addressed by updating ICU to version 55.

CVE-ID

CVE-2014-8146 : Marc Deslauriers

CVE-2014-8147 : Marc Deslauriers

CVE-2015-5922 : Mark Brand of Google Project Zero

iTunes

Available for: Windows 7 and later

Impact: Opening a media file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A security issue existed in Microsoft Foundation Class's handling of library loading. This issue was addressed by updating to the latest version of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package.

CVE-ID

CVE-2010-3190 : Stefan Kanthak

iTunes

Available for: Windows 7 and later

Impact: A man-in-the-middle attack while browsing the iTunes Store via iTunes may result in unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to obtain encrypted SMB credentials

Description: A redirection issue existed in the handling of certain network connections. This issue was addressed through improved resource validation.

CVE-ID

CVE-2015-5920 : Cylance

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